Top Management, executives and decision-makers at PUIG, a leading retailer of luxury fragrances and fashion products worldwide, are now using a Clariba developed advanced analytics solution for faster decision-making.With the comprehensive, mobile solution delivered by Clariba, executives can now analyse clearly defined key performance indicators across all business areas and collaborate in real-time.

As enterprises still struggle to successfully rollout native mobile applications as outlined by a recent Gartner Survey, large enterprise software vendors like IBM, SAP and others are moving to facilitate better native mobile application development by releasing enterprise software development kits (SDKs) of their own.

Board members, executives and decision makers at Shaker Group — a leading air condition and home appliances distributor in Saudi Arabia — are now taking active, live decisions with SAP Digital Boardroom. Where previously time-consuming static reports were compiled and consolidated, SAP’s Digital Boardroom solution, implemented by Clariba, now offers key decision makers a real-time view of all company operations across all lines of business.

This comprehensive view now enables the team at Shaker Group to analyse trends and achieve insights in real-time, at a granular view, across multiple screens and mobile devices — taking their decision-making process to the next level.

Your business has large sets of data, maybe even tens or hundreds of terabytes? You already have SAP HANA for your enterprise data, but are now faced with the need to extract insights also from your big data scenarios? In this blog post we explain some of your options.

As SAP Analytics expert partners, we felt the need to develop an internal tool to help us measure a SAP BI server’s performance when handling more and more data and more and more users. We needed to scientifically and objectively measure SAP BI performance and benchmark it against other servers or after server tuning. The result are the Clariba SAP Business Intelligence Benchmarks.

UAE, Dubai, October 02, 2013 – In-memory computing (IMC) is quoted as one of the top 10 technology trends for 2013. Jumping on this trend is Spinneys Dubai, a leading food retailer in the UAE, who recently implemented SAP’s real-time in-memory technology platform SAP HANA®. This groundbreaking solution combined with the leading visualization and analysis capabilities of SAP@ BusinessObjects™ immediately allowed Spinneys to explore and analyze large quantities of their data from a vast array of sources more effectively, at record speeds. Clariba, a leading business analytics consultancy in the Middle East, was a key player in ensuring the successful implementation and immediate results.

“We can now not only get supplier delivery performance reports in a short amount of time, but more importantly, we can now track in real time a supplier’s performance at a level of granularity that was not possible to achieve before,” says Rohith D’Souza, responsible for business analysis & development, Spinneys Dubai. “This solution makes it easier for us not only to store vast quantities of data, but also to retrieve and analyze it at record speeds, with a lot of flexibility on how we build reports. If you take for example our Inflation Report which used to take three hours to run; we now have results in less than three minutes.”

“The main goal for Spinneys is to make sure that all decisions we make are the right ones for our customers. This solution is helping us to streamline internal processes, allowing us to make better-informed decisions much faster, and ultimately, helping us serve our customers better. That’s what we strive for everyday,” says Rohith.

“As every retailer, Spinneys has increasing amounts of data from point-of-sale transactions and on the operational side – purchasing, stock, and financial data. Understanding stock levels and wastage, and forecasting inventory movements are critical to manage the profitability of a retail organization. With SAP HANA, Spinneys management now has speed-of-thought analytic capabilities available at their fingertips,” says Marc Haberland, managing director, Clariba. “What’s more, our team of certified consultants with years of business intelligence experience has helped Spinneys to achieve these capabilities in just a few weeks by leveraging the game-changing capabilities of SAP HANA.”

Qais Gharaibeh, managing director – UAE, SAP MENA says, “Spinneys has shown great ambition by investing in technology that can transform its operations. In particular, it will be able to become more nimble and profitable, while also delivering a more engaging and relevant shopping experience to its customers. SAP HANA is all about real-time efficiency, intelligent insight and achieving previously unattainable levels of innovation.”

Spinneys, Clariba and SAP

Spinneys has started applying the technology in several initiatives such as their Category Performance Improvement (CPI) process, which cascades corporate strategies down to the product level, analyzing sales and shopping trends to ensure the optimal mix reaches the final customer.

The company is also thrilled with, and will shortly start tapping into all the possibilities that SAP BusinessObjects’ Mobile Business Intelligence brings. “A manager can go down to the store, tablet in hand, analyze a range of products and its performance on the shop floor. If there is a gap on the shelf, he can instantly see if the stock of the product is low, and if a purchase order has been placed for it already. All in real-time!” mentions Rohith. “This represents a big improvement in the way we will do things going forward. With this technology, the possibilities are limitless.”

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About Clariba

Clariba delivers innovative, reliable and high-quality Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and data warehousing solutions to customers worldwide. With offices in Dubai, Qatar and Spain, Clariba are recognized and respected as one of the leading SAP BI partners in MENA and Europe. For more information, visit www.clariba.com

About Spinneys

Spinneys are one of the leading supermarket chains in the UAE. Spinneys is a premium retailer with a focus on freshness, quality and range. Our customers are aspirational shoppers who value quality, service and convenience. For more information, visit www.spinneys-dubai.com/

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 248,500 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com